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Presenting: the buyer-led secondaries deal.
The hire is understood to bring the total number of professionals within the investment bank’s directs and secondaries team to 35.
Paul Sanabria and Jeff Hammer will return to their advisory roots as part of the investment bank's 'aggressive' push.
The sale follows the close of Ardian’s latest secondaries flagship programme on a record-breaking $30bn.
The mid-market firm associated with global advisory group Alvarez & Marsal is the latest to join an increasingly competitive buyside landscape.
The hire comes a month after NYCRS closed a more than $5.5bn sale to Blackstone Strategic Partners.
The firm is investing its $2.5bn Ashbridge Transformational Secondaries Fund II, which closed in 2023.
New Mountain Capital has been been communicating with LPs about the formalisation of its CV strategy in recent months.
The firm's Partnership Solutions business will back single- and concentrated multi-asset CVs and will also be co-led by a two-decade veteran of the private equity giant.
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